[SOLVED] CMake CPPLINT coloured output

Issue

Is there any way to colour the cpplint output when setting

set(CMAKE_CXX_CPPLINT "cpplint")

in the cmake file?

Solution

If you want to color any output, you have to communicate that intention to the thing that displays it. For displaying the output of commands, typically a terminal is used, nowadays in the form of terminal emulator.

If your terminal supports ANSI color escape sequences, you could just mock cpplint process and output a color code before and after it is run. On a *unix environment you could create an executable file named mycpplint with the content along:

#!/bin/sh
printf '\E[36m' ; cpplint "$@" ; printf '\E[0m'

and then add that executable file location to PATH and do set(CMAKE_CXX_CPPLINT "mycpplint").

Answered By - KamilCuk